[Livvie]

Let's face it. Not only is it foreign to us, (imagine if people were wearing... I don't know... bavarian lederhosen.) so we look pretty silly wearing it unless there's a really good reason to, it's also old fashioned. I *know* that they're still sort of worn in Japan, but... it's not like people wear them all the time.

It'd be like a Japanese person wearing a huge skirted western style ballgown around town. We wear ballgowns to very very formal events, and they are old fashioned. Or if... they wore a girdle- we've moved on. Or, since the clothes don't translate that well- like them laying the table with 4 kinds of forks.